Improvement in shoe-blacking cases



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES I. ELLIS, OFYIARKER CITY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPR'ovEMENTiN SHOE-BLACKING cAsEs.

spnloution forming part of Letters Patent No..159,167,daltcdJanualy 26,1lz75; application tiled October 1, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ACHARLES P. ELLIS, of Parker City, in the county ot'. Armstrong,r and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a. new and Improved Toilet Blaekinguse, of which tlnLtollovlu'ugv is a. specification z.

My improved toilet blocking-cese is constructed with a shallow base provided'with s'prings, adapted to hold blacking-boxes 'of 'any customary size, and a hinged Hap shutfingvover the box, so 'as tog dispense with a. separate cover therefor. The ense hns u cover ot' suieicnt depth to contain e brush, which is supported therein by means et' :i spring projecting upwurd from the bzlck ot' the hinged ila El the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of 'my bl-.ieking-case on the line 1 1, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 vis a. transverse section of the same on the line 22,11`ig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan of the base with the hinged llnp closed. Fig. 4 is' a plan view thereof'A with the flap open. Y

B represents'the shallow base, and C the deep cover. D D D are springs within the buse, adapted to hold n bhichingbox, E, between their free ends. F is n linp hinged at (l, und :ulnpted to shut down over the box E, in which position it is held b yn spring-mitch,

LI. I is n spring', uttztehed to the buck ofthe flap LEInd suiniortingone end ot' .the b1' u slLJw,.v within the deep eover C, the buck bristles by` which the blocking is V:ipplicd resting on the bottom of' thel euse. The cover also uit'orlls CHARLES P. 'ELLI-` VVituesses: l

(m'rAvIUs Knion'r, WALTER ALLEN. 

